wouldn't mind selling a kidney for big bucks!
Thanks for the comic relief :)
Update: I spoke to my gynecologist again today. She shut down my question - she said something to the effect of "Do I think it's anything? No. But you're looking for the one in the thousand and you don't want to mess around with that."
So then I tried calling some hospitals to get a better estimate of prices, and I was told they would not do a biopsy without repeating the ultrasound. I already know that in-hospital ultrasounds cost $660/breast, and I think my insurance would pay maybe 30% of that? And that's before you get to the biopsy.
I then spoke to a nurse at the breast cancer centre at the hospital. She understood my dilemma, and said to fax through the radiologist report and she would speak to the doctor tomorrow to get his thoughts (she had my file, case notes etc in front of her and could see he'd told me to get the follow up ultrasound in January - I told her that I'd done it in Nov. as my gynecologist recommended this when I fell pregnant).
She is going to get back to me on Monday. Honestly, I hear what you're saying, those of you who are saying 'why wait, it could make all the difference' but I keep reading this report which says *every indication is its benign* and I just feel like I'm getting shafted if I have it now instead of in 40 days. Aaaghh!
I think I'm having this internal battle between two voices of reason, one that is maybe much more emotional than the other, but they're both reasonable!
Voice 1: both ultrasounds say it looks benign. Every feature of it is benign, other than possible growth, and there are two very good explanations for the perceived/possible growth [difference in technique + pregnancy]. 40 days won't make any difference.
Voice 2: why would you risk it? It's the big C-word. And you're pregnant.
Voice 1: would 40 days make any difference anyway?
Voice 2: YOU MIGHT DIE BECAUSE YOU WAITED 40 DAYS YOU BIG IDIOT.
Voice 1: Doubt it. Just wait.
Voice 2: YOU DON'T GET IT.
And so it goes, on loop. Husband says if it was him, he would wait - FWIW, he's generally a far more rational/less emotional person than me (clumsy way to describe it but he'd agree). But that if I don't want to wait, that's OK.